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YES Bank crisis: Rana Kapoor in ED custody, faces Rs 4K-cr kickback probe

12 shell firms, 2 UK assets, 44 paintings under ED scanner; London-bound daughter stopped at Mumbai Airport; CBI books Kapoor and Wadhawan on charges of cheating

YES Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor
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YES Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor being taken to a sessions court after being arrested by Enforcement Directorate, in Mumbai, on Sunday. (Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)

Shrimi Choudhary New Delhi
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has found that YES Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor and his family set up over a dozen shell firms that were allegedly used for receiving kickbacks to the tune of Rs 4,300 crore and invested in properties illegally.

The agency arrested Kapoor, 62, early Sunday morning in connection with a money-laundering probe — three days after the Reserve Bank put YES Bank under a 30-day moratorium and superseded its board. Kapoor was produced in a Mumbai sessions court, which remanded him in ED custody till March 11. The agency told the court that Kapoor’s custody was required

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